China has won its trade war with the US. China's global trade is rapidly accelerating: China's exports in US Dollar terms jumped +21.8% YoY between January and February 2026, the highest in at least 3 years.
Sincere thanks to Adam!: over the last year I am leaning a bit more from original writing to sharing the research of people who have invested years in understanding the underlying mechanisms of specific parts of government.
This is a great example.
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did Russia bail out the casino?
cause
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
they are going to try to slaughter us
feedback loop
closeup of a Nazi inspired tattoo
then feedback loops and neo-nazi shit
shit is unthinkable
but Fox and Friends is my starting place for trying to understand 'this'
New, at Can We Still Govern?: Christian Gläßel and
@ascharpf.bsky.social have studied the formation of secret police in other countries. They explain the parallels with Trump's immigration enforcement.
The key factor is career incentives not ideology. 🧵
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Radars
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also Trump can't be negotiated with.
'Talks' are the same as war.
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Personalist regimes always suffer from this, but then on top of that we have a personalist regime built on a man who is not just ignorant and malign, he is properly non compos mentis. Pretending he's capable of holding public office and giving orders at all is a kind of mass delusion.
Trump officials privately pessimistic there's a strategy to end war, but they fear telling this to Trump, NYT reports. On the pod, @profsaunders.bsky.social brilliantly explains how this shows perils of "personalist" rule and the total absence of constraints on him:
newrepublic.com/article/2076...
This is the pentagon press corp now: hand picked propagandists
Petes family looks more tied into the local Minnesota political machine than old money
is there any racism at Princeton ?
I’m having Vietnam War flashbacks to when the US claimed that we were winning because we were dropping lots of bombs and killing lots of people. (We lost the war.)
Moments after calling CNN "fake news" for reporting that the administration had not planned for Iran to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, Hegseth basically confirms that they didn't plan for it.
This war could still be going on in 2028, btw.
Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.
In the USA
33 children are injured on farms every day
www.wpr.org/agriculture/...
A yellow post-it stuck on a black door reading “zooming”
Six years ago today, this post-it still would’ve made no sense to me … yet … #Covid19 #13March2020
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3rd Place Celebration Meme Generator text "This Meme?"
I expected this meme.
also freedom to associate
"No Law abridging " freedom to
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this is how I deal with the problem of numbers getting bigger.
I capped my numbers at 79.
I just don't interact with anything bigger than 78+1
